Born on 17 September 1941 in Belarus, Brest region.
In 1963 she graduated from Vilnius University with a degree in philology. In 1970, she graduated from the Leningrad State Institute of Theatre, Music and Cinematography (now the State Theatre Academy of St Petersburg) with a degree in drama. She has staged plays in Lithuanian and Russian theatres, taught acting and directing at the Klaipėda faculties of the Lithuanian State Conservatoire, taught Russian language and literature at the Vilnius Pedagogical School, worked as a translator and correspondent. In 1995-1999, she actively collaborated with the cultural weekly "Šiaurės Atėnai", publishing publications and articles on various topics. In 1998-2002, she published articles in the Catholic magazine Sandora, and has also contributed to the magazines Kultūros barai, Naujasis Židinys, Į Laisvę (in which she published articles and was a member of the editorial board), and elsewhere. Researcher of the cultural heritage of emigrants, author of documentary prose. She has published a number of articles on Antanas Maceinas, essays on Zenonas Ivinskis, Juozas Girniai, Juozas Ambrazevičius-Brazaitis.